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It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
Gertrude Atherton
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Gertrude Atherton
Age: 90 †
Born: 1858
Born: January 14
Died: 1948
Died: June 14
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Non-Fiction Writer
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San Francisco County
California
Gertrude Franklin Atherton
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Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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Plot and melodrama were in every life in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.
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It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
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I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.
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